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It happened at the National Shrine this past weekend — and the Catholic News Agency article spotlights a deacon and his family: More than 580 couples renewed their marriage vows at a Sunday Mass celebrated by Archbishop of Washington Donald W. Wuerl at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Couples offered…

“Secular media often falls into a trap of being cynical, disrespectful and sensationalist. Whatever is rudest or most sensational is what they often gravitate to. Catholic media can model what a civil, substantive media can and should be. Civil, substantive media pursues and presents stories of substance and depth that enrich all of our lives.…

A parishioner sent these along this morning: some snapshots from our Corpus Christi procession at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Forest Hills, Queens.  It was a beautiful event — with hundreds of parishioners and dozens of altar servers.      

The Republican strategist, editor and talk show host (and wife of Democratic loud mouth, James Carville) spoke to the Catholic Media Convention last weekend. At one point, she mentioned that she was raised Methodist, but joined the Catholic Church this past Easter, through RCIA. From Catholics News Service, via the Catholic Spirit: She shared her…

Stories like this one in Kentucky are rare, but not unheard of. But it’s big enough that is made the local paper: James Reinhart is accustomed to being called dad, grandpa or deacon, but he’s still getting accustomed to his new title. “I’m not used to being called Father Jim,” Reinhart said Sunday as he…

These cases seem to be coming more common. Another Protestant converts and becomes a priest — and makes a little news in the process: After 19 years as a Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Philip Johnson had grown disenchanted with Protestantism. “There comes a time, if you’re Catholic, to be Catholic,” the newest priest of the…

Those icons of the ’70s, James Taylor and Carole King, are hitting the road, and have just released a live concert album. They’re chatting up their tour in Monday’s New York Times. But you can see the results for yourself below. After nearly 40 years, they sound almost exactly the same — and Carole King,…

A stirring pro-life video from Andrea Bocelli — who uses his voice here to tell a beautiful story of life, and love. H/T Fr. Steve.

It’s all about clothes. Below is a vintage photograph of guests at Disneyland in the 1950s. And below, from 2006. It’s not too great of a leap to compare the fashions at an amusement park to the clothes at church.  With a few scenic adjustments, both the pictures above might be set at any Catholic…

The 100-year-old mother of Father Jerzy Popieliszko, Marianna, center, prays at her son’s grave in front of the St. Stanislaw Kostka church in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 5, 2010, ahead of the Sunday beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko. Popieluszko, the Solidarity chaplain, was tortured and murdered by the communist secret police in 1984. Read more here.
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